Description
1. What does aphanitic and phaneritic mean?
2. What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
3. What does felsic and mafic mean?
4. What does sorted mean in sedimentary rocks?
5. What is the rock cycle?
6. How do rocks “tell a geologic story or history?
7. What are the are generally like on Mars and the Moon.
8. Do detailed classifications of rocks exist?
9. What is the classification and mineral / material characteristics of each
igneous rock? (Felsic/ Mafic/ intrusive/ extrusive / volcanic/ plutonic/ what
common minerals / glass)
a. Rhyolite
b. Granite
c. Andesite
d. Diorite
e. Basalt
f. Gabbro
10.What are two types of volcanic igneous rocks associated with hot spots and
location examples?
11.What is a volcanic rock that is associated with volcanism produced at
subduction zones?
12.What is an igneous rock that is most likely to have abundant plagioclase
feldspar?
13.What is an igneous rock that is most likely to have abundant potassium
feldspar?
14.What an igneous rock is commonly generated at mid-ocean ridges and
makes pillow lava?
15.What are the main mineral components of each sedimentary rock?
a. Conglomerate
b. Sandstone
c. Siltstone
d. Shale
e. Black shale
f. Limestone
g. Dolostone
h. Halite
